In your manifest you declare a service with android:name=”.Communication”, this means that your service class should be located in com.exercise.AndroidClient.Communication Check that the packages are correct. Note that the “.” (dot) refers to the root of your package (ie the package declared in the manifest). So, for example, if your package is com.exercise.AndroidClient and your … Read more
it depends on where you have register the receiver. The complementary method pairs are onCreate – onDestroy onResume – onPause onStart – onStop if you register the receiver in the first one then unregister it in it’s ending method.
So my question is how do I get the context in an IntentService? The IntentService is the Context, as IntentService inherits from Context.
Best implimentation I have seen based on Google IO Pro Tips 2010 is the RoboSpice library, which is REST based and very cleverly works with the Activity lifecycle as to not leak memory. Quick infographic the library is here Loaders are designed for database, not REST, they are reset on activity reset meaning you loose … Read more
Here is the trick, make use of a volatile static variable and check continue condition in some of lines in your service that service continue should be checked: class MyService extends IntentService { public static volatile boolean shouldContinue = true; public MyService() { super(“My Service”); } @Override protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) { doStuff(); } private … Read more
They can be used very differently for different purposes. AsyncTask is a handy threading utility that can be used if you need to constantly tell the user something or periodically perform operations on the main thread. It offers a lot of fine-grain control, and because of it’s nature is very easy to work with in … Read more
WorkManager comes with following features: Provides tasks which can survive process death It can waken up the app and app’s process to do the work thereby guarantees that works will be executed. Allows observation of work status and the ability to create complex chains of work Allows work chaining which allows to segregate big chunk … Read more
All the answers seem correct so I’ll go ahead and give a complete answer here. Firstly, the easiest way to do what you are trying to do is launch a Broadcast in Android when the app is killed manually, and define a custom BroadcastReceiver to trigger a service restart following that. Now lets jump into … Read more
Well here is a complete example of an AutoStart Application AndroidManifest file <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <manifest xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” package=”pack.saltriver” android:versionCode=”1″ android:versionName=”1.0″> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED” /> <application android:icon=”@drawable/icon” android:label=”@string/app_name”> <receiver android:name=”.autostart”> <intent-filter> <action android:name=”android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED” /> </intent-filter> </receiver> <activity android:name=”.hello”></activity> <service android:enabled=”true” android:name=”.service” /> </application> </manifest> autostart.java public class autostart extends BroadcastReceiver { public void onReceive(Context context, Intent arg1) … Read more